20 Years, 20 Teachings

When the time came to choose the stories and teachings to represent Tricycle‘s 20-year journey, we found ourselves in a quandary over what to select, and what to leave out. Many, many articles to which we have a deep, um, attachment, ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor, but we think you’ll be pleased with the 20 that made into it our e-book, 20 Years, 20 Teachings: The Tricycle 20th Anniversary E-book.

In her contribution to our e-book, “Being Intimate with Demons,” poet Joan Hirshfield examines the place of emotions in Buddhist practice:

Some Buddhist teachings I encountered as a beginning student spoke of all thoughts and emotions as manifestations of illusion; others proposed the attitude “Offer your emotion a cup of tea, but you don’t have to ask it to stay”; others suggested that thought-formations and sensory feelings be allowed to come and go as freely as the reflections of clouds in a lake; and still others used a language of self-control and will, and “uprooting” and “burning away” the impurities of anger, pride, sensuality. None of this was particularly well sorted through in my mind, and the result was a number of clashing, coexistent prescriptions for dealing with emotions.

Read this complete article here. There’s much more in the e-book from our 20 years of bringing you the best Buddhist writing and teachings anywhere.

This e-book is free to Supporting and Sustaining Members of the Tricycle Community as our thank you for twenty wonderful years of your readership and support. We couldn’t do it without you, and we’re glad you’ve chosen to take the journey with us!